Enrique Mora, the EU envoy to Iran’s nuclear talks and deputy secretary-general of the European diplomatic service, has denounced a possible “violation” of the Vienna Convention after he was briefly arrested by police Germans at Frankfurt airport.
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“Arrested by German police at Frankfurt Airport on the way from Tehran to Brussels. No explanation (…) they took my passport and my phones,” Enrique Mora said on Twitter, recalling that he “is an EU official on official mission and holds a Spanish diplomatic passport”.
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“I have now been released together with two of my colleagues, the EU ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna and the head of the working group of European diplomacy on Iran,” he added in a second statement on the social network. “We were kept separate and denied the slightest explanation for an apparent violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” underscored Enrique Mora.
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Enrique Mora “has returned from Tehran, but the incident is over now, he’s on the road again and took his plane,” said EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Berlin. This incident comes as negotiations on Iran’s civilian nuclear energy, which have been stalled since March, have just “restarted,” according to Josep Borrell, who assured on Friday that the situation was “unlocked.”
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Enrique Mora had talks with Iran’s chief negotiator, Ali Bagheri, in Tehran this week. Iran is negotiating in Vienna with China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany to revive the 2015 deal designed to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring the nuclear bomb, a goal disputed by Tehran, in exchange for the lifting of suffocating sanctions on its economy.
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